1300 miles in a week....In an S3........
1300 miles in a week....In an S3........
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bridgdav

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4,805 posts

276 months

Monday 20th October 2003
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Just got back to work having spent the last 7 days on a driving holiday in Deepest Wales.

[TEMPT FATE ON]

Who says TVR's are unreliable......

[TEMPT FATE OFF]

What a great time and probably some of the best roads I've ever driven.(Roof Off)
We stayed in Mid-Wales @ lovely farmhouse B&B. The ELAN Valley over to Aberysthwyth, lakes, mountains and a bloody lot of sheep.



A trip up to Snowdonia again superb roads, lakes, mountains and a bloody lot of sheep.

After hearing all the horror stories on here about reliability - I took this holiday with a large amount of trepidation. Lots of wood touching.....

NO NEED The car performed brilliantly..!!!

We covered a total of 1282 miles spent £155 on fuel.. so average 25mpg over the whole trip...

The surface quality of the roads however need something to be desired....I think I will spend this weekend tightening up just about every piece of trim to stop all the rattles.....

The weather was clear every day, so I consider myself Very Lucky.
I would recommend this trip to anyone for all of the reasons above....

I really learnt a lot about the car...what pleasure can be had and how the 'S' can help you out in a crisis.
I took a corner a bit 'hot' BUT the car just glided round back end pulling straight when I hit the loud pedal, the cheeks were firmly clasped as there was 150ft drop to my right....

Using 1/5th of my mileage allowance in a week was probably a bit extreme....

Bring on Le Mans next year......

mrmaggit

10,146 posts

276 months

Monday 20th October 2003
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We've just used 40% of ours in 2 months!

maggit & Lorraine

But we got 200% smile rate for it!

lazyitus

19,931 posts

294 months

Monday 20th October 2003
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Did you visit Presteigne?

tvrgaas

1,480 posts

298 months

Monday 20th October 2003
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lazyitus said:
Did you visit Presteigne?


I was there last weekend!
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Dave - YHM

bridgdav

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4,805 posts

276 months

Monday 20th October 2003
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YES....

All around that area Prestigne, Knighton, Newtown LLandridnod Wells, Ludlow etc....

Great driving thro' Knighton High St passing the Max Muppets by the tower...Sports Exhaust popping and banging at the ready

We stayed in 'Felindre' between Knighton and Newtown.

Dave, did you go up to the Vintage car rally in Prestigne and Llan'od Wells..???

All the miles in Wales....Only 1 spotted, coming back through Monmouth on Friday. However then went down to Barnstaple for the w/end spotted a few near Penninsula...

DustyC

12,822 posts

282 months

Monday 20th October 2003
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Nice one Dave.

I must get one sooner!